A man and his family move into the past home of a former Dixie mafia hitman. The witness details the paranormal activity and strange discoveries associated with the house.
The following anecdote was received several years ago from a 'Phantoms and Monsters' reader:
"When I first moved to Georgia from Florida in 1991, I moved into a house in Smyrna with my future first wife and her two kids. The house was a 2-story ranch built in the early '60s. The basement had a large family room running almost the length of the house along with 2 bedrooms. There were several windows on the back side of the house, up high in the room, at about ground level outside. This is the room that had the TV. The house also had lots of walls with large drywall patches, that I initially couldn't explain. Anyway, at night I always felt something was watching me from those windows while I was watching TV. And it wasn't a warm and fuzzy feeling either. It was the kind of feeling of, I can't look out the window, because if I see something I will scream.
Two weird, unexplainable things happened in that house while I lived there that I know about. The first happened when I got home from work one late afternoon and went downstairs and laid on the couch with my back to the room and waited for my wife to get home. After a few minutes, I heard someone walk from the direction of the stairs towards me and up behind me and stop. I figured it was my wife who was checking on me and thought I was asleep. Then I heard a big sigh and them walking away. Well about 20 minutes later my wife came home, and I was all alone in the house!
The next thing that happened was when my stepdaughter and wife were cleaning her bedroom, which was downstairs in the basement. They were cleaning her dresser together and all of a sudden, a music box on the dresser opened up by itself and then closed by itself. Both of them initially just stood there stunned and didn't say anything and then came and got me.
One day, our neighbor Betty came over with a newspaper article. She had lived next door for years. She told us that a hitman for the Dixie Mafia had lived in the house for years. His name was John Elbert Ransom and Georgia authorities had him associated with 25 murders. At the time I lived in the house, he was in jail for conspiracy to commit murder. Betty told us all kinds of stories, including that when they arrested him, they cut holes in the walls of the house looking for illegal drugs and guns.
I always wondered if one of his victims had come back to haunt him." B
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